ALBANY >> The Averill Park baseball team has been setting school history this season and their incredible run through the New York State Class A baseball tournament reached new heights on Saturday, advancing to the state final four.

“It’s really good for the kids, they worked really hard and it’s starting to pay off,” coach Jim Kahler said. “It’s really exciting for them and its a really big accomplishment. It’s really great for our seniors (11) to go out on this note,” he added.

After finishing with a 5-15 record last season, the Warriors will see their season continue into the state semifinals after the state’s ninth-ranked team cruised to a 16-1 victory over Section X’s Massena High in the regional quarterfinal Saturday afternoon at Plumeri Sports Complex in Albany.

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“It’s just a ridiculous feeling and we want to keep it going,” senior Ben Reinisch said. “We all love each other, we have great team chemistry and to keep moving on with this group of guys is pretty amazing,” he added.

Saturday’s game played out in the exact opposite fashion as Friday’s narrow and dramatic 1-0 triumph over No. 2 Jamesville-DeWitt (19-4) at Onondaga CC for Averill Park (14-11), who surprised many when they won the Section II Class A crown, their first ever, as the eighth seed last week.

“We’ve just got to keep plugging away, keep battling,” Reinisch said. “We know were good enough if we can keep playing this way.”

“The kids seem to go with the punches. They’re so exciting to be going to the states, they’re pumped,” Kahler said.

Siena College bound pitcher Tyler Childrose tossed a one-hitter and accounted for the games lone run when he lofted a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning to score Reinisch on Friday. On Saturday, Averill Park pounded out hit after hit and called upon senior Alex Tomlinson and he was just as effective as Childrose was on Friday, pitching a complete game, four-hitter to help propel the Warriors into the state semis.

“The emotions are a bit different especially with Tyler battling the way he did, every inning it was a battle. Today, we came out and got the bats going early,” said Reinisch, who finished with three singles and three RBI on Saturday. “Our rotation is pretty sick and we know whoever goes to the mound is going to give us the best they have and were going to give them the best we have behind them,” he added.

The Warriors broke out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning when Childrose got things going by drawing a walk and stealing second. Jarid Lucier then delivered an RBI single to left before Chris Amadon dropped in a base hit to center followed up by a Tomlinson two-run double to the center field fence.

“We just set a pace,” Reinisch said. “We had that three-run inning to set it up then we just wanted to keep doing what we were doing in that inning, getting guys around and get runs in.”

Averill Park would add to their lead with eight more runs, on six hits, in the third inning to chase Massena starter Alex Haas from the game in favor of Jacob Vierno. It was Amadon again, this time with the bases loaded he smacked a double over the right fielder’s head, clearing the bases.

“We don’t score a lot runs,” Kahler said. “We had a lot of balls that were hit in the gap and fell in. We just had a lot of key hits.”

DJ Morone, James Apple, Sam Beaulac, Brendan Kelly and Dan Fratianni also had an RBI each for Averill Park, who faces the winner of Rye and Maine Endwell in the state final four on Saturday in Binghamton.